Thomas Vander Wal brings his 18 years experience as a designer, developer, information architect, and techonosocial architect to solving his customer's problems. Thomas has been working on his Model of Attraction and Personal InfoCloud (and Local InfoCloud) as the focal point of his perspective for focussing on information beyond the page and around the needs of people in their life. In 2004 he coined the term folksonomy as a way to differentiate tagging solutions that allows people to best refind information from all other tagging solutions.In 2005 Thomas incorporated InfoCloud Solutions to provide consulting and product development services to organizations that want to focus on providing their customers information solutions. The solutions provide insight and value to designing and developing information strategies for cross-platform and cross-device deployment. They also provide understanding for their customers developing in todays interactive web and the social web. In recent years Thomas has spoken and keynoted at the following: IA Summit, Euro IA Summit, SIGCHI.NL, SXSW, WebVisions, Online Information, Design Engaged, Social Software in the Academy, Corante and Berkman Institute Symposium on Social Architecture, Webmasters Roundtable, among others.Thomas was a technical lead for the founding of Boxes and Arrows magazine, helped found the what is now the Information Architect Institute, and is now on the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project.

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